Researchers Bypass Internet Explorer Protected Mode

A new paper from researchers at Verizon Business identifies a method through which an attacker can bypass Internet Explorer Protected Mode and gain elevated privileges once he’s successfully exploited a bug on the system. Protected Mode in Internet Explorer is one of a handful of key security...

Assessing the Adobe Reader X Sandbox

Over the past few years, malicious PDFs have become common place and a prefered vector for attackers. Last week, Adobe announced the release of Reader X – the much anticipated next major release of their ubiquitous document reader, which includes a new security feature called ”Protected Mode”...

Amnesty International Site Found Hosting Malware, IE Zero Day

Researchers at security firm Websense have found that Amnesty International’s Hong Kong site, amnesty.org.hk, is serving up a cocktail of malware that includes last week’s Internet Explorer 0-day. Visitors to the human rights organization’s site operating versions 6 and 7 of IE are being targeted...

Adobe Reader X With Protected Mode Due in November

Adobe will finally release the new version of its Reader software–which will include the much-anticipated Protected Mode security feature–next month. Adobe Reader X will include a number of other new features in addition to the sandbox feature. Adobe officials have been discussing Protected Mode...

Adobe Details Reader Protected Mode Sandbox

Adobe officials have said that the next version of Reader, one of the more popular and oft-targeted applications on the Internet right now, will have a sandboxing feature, and now the company is providing a detailed description of the new Protected Mode addition. Adobe’s Brad Arkin, the director ...

'Protected Mode' Brings Sandbox to Adobe Reader

The next major version of Adobe’s PDF Reader will feature new sandboxing technology aimed at curbing a surge in malicious hacker attacks against the widely deployed software. The security feature, called “Protected Mode,” is similar to the Google Chrome sandbox and Microsoft Office 2010 Protected...

Security Zones

Select the Security tab. This provides a list of the various security zones that Internet Explorer uses. For each of these zones, you can select a Custom Level of protection. By clicking the Custom Level button, you will see a second window open that permits you to select various security setting...

Checks InternetExplorer Policy for Protected Mode over WMI (Windows)

Checks InternetExplorer Policy for Protected Mode over WMI. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: GSHBWMIProtectedMode.nasl 7061 2017-09-05 11:50:40Z teissa $ Checks InternetExplorer Policy for Protected Mode over WMI Windows Authors: Thomas Rotter Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Checks InternetExplorer Policy for Protected Mode over WMI - Windows

Checks InternetExplorer Policy for Protected Mode over WMI. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CORE-2009-0625: Internet Explorer Dynamic OBJECT tag and URLMON sniffing vulnerabilities

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Core Security Technologies Advisory 2009.0625

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Core Security Technologies - CoreLabs Advisory http://www.coresecurity.com/corelabs/ Internet Explorer Dynamic OBJECT tag and URLMON sniffing vulnerabilities 1. Advisory Information Title: Internet Explorer Dynamic OBJECT tag and URLMON sniffing...

Microsoft Confirms New IE Data Leakage Flaw

Microsoft today issued a security advisory to acknowledge an information disclosure hole in its Internet Explorer browser and warned that an attacker could exploit the flaw to access files with an already known filename and location. The vulnerability was first discussed at this week’s Black Hat ...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 980088

Microsoft has released Security Advisory 980088 to alert users of a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The advisory indicates that exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to harvest user credentials and other sensitive information by enticing users to visit a malicious...

I Have Only One Security Prediction for 2010

Instead of the usual top ten lists that are all-too-common with predictions for the new year, I have just one: 2010 will be the year of desktop applications handling untrusted data in sandboxed processes, and it will be about time. Since the release of Windows XP SP2, there have been significantl...

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